Murray Woodman

Murray brings 25 years of development and consulting experience to Morpht, working in the content management area on a number of systems on a variety of platforms. In that time he has worked in legal publishers, startups, web agencies and in house in a variety of capacities as designer, developer and information architect. Murray's interests include data modelling, the semantic web and performance. Murray is an organiser of the Sydney Drupal Meetup and regularly speaks at camps and conferences. He still gets a buzz out of seeing the final published product at the end of the process.

Qualifications

BEc (Soc Sc) Hons, LLB (Sydney University)
Acquia Certified Developer
ScrumMaster

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Layout Paragraphs: A new way to manage Paragraphs

This is a presentation about a relatively new module called Layout Paragraphs. However, it really should be subtitled as "A brief history of laying things out in Drupal".

26 March 2021

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Morpht turns nine

As Morpht turns nine, a look back over the past year on all the things we have achieved.

16 March 2021

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Announcing Sajari AI powered search for Drupal

Those of you who work with Drupal, you are probably familiar with the combination of using Search API with a search backend such as MySQL or Solr. A pluggable architecture makes Search API a good choice for indexing content in Drupal.

26 February 2021

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DrupalGov2020: An analysis of government sites in Australia

An analysis of government sites in Australia around the areas of accessibility, SEO, performance, best practices and security.

6 November 2020

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Announcing personalisation for Drupal 8 with Recombee

Recombee can augment user experience and engagement by delivering content recommendations to users based on their behaviour and the similarity of content they view.

10 August 2020

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Morpht now runs on 100% renewable energy

Morpht is now powered by 100% renewable energy and is part of the GreenPower programme.

3 January 2020

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Personalisation with Recombee

Learn about integrating personalisation in Drupal via Recombee. A presentation by Murray Woodman at DrupalSouth 2019.

10 December 2019

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See you at DrupalSouth Hobart 2019

Morpht will be presenting at DrupalSouth Hobart 2019 on Personalisation with Recombee and Content migration.

26 November 2019

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GovCMS8 and the UI-Kit Starter theme

The newly released GovCMS8 distribution ships with a brand-new base theme, designed to deliver a great-looking, functional site - straight out of the box, with no theming or coding required. Suitable for government agencies, platform evaluators as well as site builders and themers.

29 July 2019

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Editor experience, GovCMS theming and architectural paradigms

DrupalSouth 2018 is being held in Canberra on December 3 - 5. Morpht is proud to be a gold sponsor of the event and to have three of our team presenting.

25 November 2018

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GovCMS8 UI-Kit Starter Theme released

Earlier in the year Morpht was hard at work on the new GovCMS8 UI-Kit Starter theme. That work has come to fruition and has now been released as open source.

25 November 2018

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Bricks, Paragraphs and Modifiers

DrupalCon Nashville is being held from April 9 to April 13 in, you guessed it, Nashville. Morpht will be presenting on a site building recipe which combines the Bricks, Paragraphs and Modifiers modules.

26 March 2018

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Morpht presenting at DrupalSouth Auckland

Maedi Prichard and Murray Woodman will be presenting sessions at the upcoming DrupalSouth conference in Auckland.

6 November 2017

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GovCMS8 Demo at GovCMS Camp

The Look and Modifiers modules were demonstrated at GovCMS Camp.

29 October 2017

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Morpht is an approved supplier on the Drupal Services Panel

We are proud to announce that Morpht has been selected as a preferred supplier on the Drupal Services Panel.

21 September 2017

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Morpht is a finalist in the Acquia Engage Awards

Morpht's work has been recognised by being selected as a finalist in the Pharmaceutical category for the Acquia Engage awards.

15 August 2017

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Convivial, a friendly way to build Drupal sites

Convivial is a new way to build Drupal websites. It is based on a solid foundation of component driven development with useful building blocks for quickly implementing functional website.

10 July 2017

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Rapid Drupal 8 Development with Components

Morpht will be presenting "Rapid Drupal 8 Development with Components" at the Drupal Expo 2017 in Tokyo, Japan.

4 June 2017

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Announcing Entity Reference Display

The Entity Reference Display module allows editors of Drupal sites to select which view mode they would like to display a list of entities as.

16 November 2016

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GovCMS and Digital Transformation

The GovCMS platform is designed to help government agencies get online and to address the challenges and opportunities posed by Digital Transformation. This article looks at the new requirements of the DTO and how they apply to GovCMS.

16 September 2015

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DrupalGlamp Sydney 2015 Wrapup

Each year the Sydney Drupal Community puts on a two day "DrupalCamp", generally held over a weekend at a location where attendees can get away from it all and get down to some serious Drupal talk.

14 September 2015

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GovCMS demo site

Morpht has released a GovCMS demo site which demonstrates some techniques which can lead to easier more effective site builds for Government agencies.

13 September 2015

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Designing for GovCMS

Designers and Information Architects unfamiliar with GovCMS can get the most from it by knowing about the patterns of Drupal and GovCMS.

31 August 2015

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The features and capabilities of GovCMS

A high level look at the features and capabilities of the GovCMS codebase. Suitable for those considering whether to build a site on the platform.

30 August 2015

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Six certified Drupal developers (and counting)

Six Morpht Developers have received Acquia certification.

5 January 2015

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Drupal Camp Sydney 2014

It's been a while since the Sydney Drupal community put on a Drupal camp. It's time for that to change.

9 May 2014

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User provisioned sites: Introducing Cyclone

Cyclone is a new Drupal module which enables users to deploy sites to a variety of platforms including Pantheon and Aegir.

5 February 2014

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One weird old tip to lose node weight

A lightning talk, presented by Murray Woodman, which examines the entity load times for different objects including nodes, users, field collections and users. Comparisons are made between different caching strategies, including entitycache, as well as the weight added by fields and hooks. Just how heavy are nodes anyway?

22 March 2013

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Information architecture for site builders

Information architecture for site builders video presentation presented at DrupalCon Sydney 2013. Find out about the horizontal aspects of Drupal, modelling multi typed objects, relationships and tips for building faceted classification.

21 February 2013

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Morpht talking at DrupalCon Sydney

We are very happy to announce that one of our presentations got selected for DrupalCon Sydney.

5 January 2013

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DrupalCon coming to Sydney

Exciting news for Drupal fans. DrupalCon will be landing in Sydney on 6th-9th February 2013.

31 October 2012

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Corporate website demo

Morpht has just released a demonstration corporate website tailored to the requirements of the typical corporate website. It has sections for investor relations, careers, team profiles, corporate governance, projects, contact information and maps.

8 October 2012

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CDNs for optimal performance

The time it takes for a page to be delivered to a user is very important. The shorter the better. Sites which suffer long download times will typically have higher bounce rates and lower conversions than sites which are faster. Google has recognised the importance of a snappy site by rewarding faster sites with better search results rankings.

4 August 2012

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